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Five Indian States- Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur went for assembly elections in Feb 2012 and the results were declared on 6th March 2012.
Uttar Pradesh
Samajwadi Party (SP) put up its best-ever performance with a stunning majority routing Mayawati-led BSP, the third time a party captured power on its own in the state in two decades.
SP, which was ousted from power in 2007 on law and order issues, avenged its defeat at the hands of BSP which was reduced to 80 seats from 206 five years ago.
The Mulayam Singh Yadav-led party has captured 224 seats in the 403-member assembly.
BJP was placed in third spot with 47 seats while Congress was relegated to fourth place with a tally of 28 seats.
While BJP this time lost four seats from its 2007 tally, Congress improved its position marginally from what it was five years ago.
SP’s previous best performance was winning 143 seats in 2002 elections in a triangular contest with BSP and BJP.
The party’s impressive performance could be gauged from the fact that it not only snatched seats from BSP but also made inroads into the stronghold of BJP like Lucknow.
However, the biggest upset has been the dismal performance of Congress, especially in Uttar Pradesh. Gandhi family scion Rahul Gandhi had personally micro-managed the poll campaign and had staked his prestige to see his party emerge from its 22-year hibernation in the politically crucial state.
Though the party’s tally has improved slightly as compared to 2007 when it had won 22 seats, several of its stalwarts lost this time.
The party performed poorly even in the bastion of Nehru-Gandhi family–Rae Bareli and Amethi Lok Sabha constituencies represented by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul respectively.
While the party lost all the five seats in Rae Bareli, Lok Sabha constituency, it was defeated in three out of the five constituencies in Amethi.
BSP, whose rule was marred by allegations of corruption and scam, failed to make much of an impact on the electorate despite operation clean-up by party supremo and CM Mayawati.
The results were encouraging for Peace Party of India, whose three candidates state president Ayub, Akhilesh Singh and Yusuf Mullick emerged victorious.
The elections, which have taken place in the middle of the last Lok Sabha election in 2009 and the next in 2014, are being considered some sort of “semi-final” for the UPA and NDA.
People in Uttar Pradesh once again proved that they prefer their “own people” rather any “charismatic” “unknown” leader and the people also showed that they are no more ready to be surrounded with Maya-jal. Samajwadi Party swiped out Congress and BSP completely in the state.
2012 UP Assembly Election Results
Total Number of seats: 403
BSP : 80
SP : 224
Cong : 28
BJP : 47
Others : 24
Results in the previous Elections 2007
Total Number of seats: 402
BSP : 206
SP : 97
BJP+ : 51
Cong+ : 22
RLD : 10
Others : 16
Punjab
For the first time in the last forty years, Punjab has given a second consecutive term to a party in power. The alliance of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the BJP will return to office with 68 of the 117 seats. The Congress, which had hoped that the anti-incumbency habit in the state would push it into government, was left with 46 seats.
Parkash Singh Badal who is 84 who will continue as Chief Minister, will begin his fifth term as head of the Punjab government.
He said he owes today to his 50-year-old son, Sukhbir, who was made party president in 2008 and deputy chief minister in 2009. That appointment left the Badals wide open to allegations of nepotism. It wasn’t just outsiders who took aim. The chief minister’s nephew, Manpreet, who was Finance Minister, gathered his supporters and quit the Akali Dal. He set up the People’s Party of Punjab (PPP); the party today failed to win a single seat, and Manpreet lost both the constituencies he contested, one of which he has won four times in the past. “Manpreet has committed a Himalayan blunder and political suicide,” said his estranged uncle today. Manpreet’s father, Gurudas, lost his deposit in his election.
The Akalis’ victory is being attributed to the party’s focus on development. The BJP has done worse in these elections than last time – it has got 12 seats. But the Akalis say this does not make their partner a liability. “Last time, they won 19 of the 23 seats they were assigned,” said Naresh Gujral, Rajya Sabha MP. “They could not have repeated that performance.”
The Badals’ appeal was also undented by the influential religious sect Dera Sacha Sauda lending its support to the Congress.
The Congress candidate for chief minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, had this morning predicted his party would defeat the Akalis. He won his seat, but his son, Raninder Singh, lost his constituency.
2012 Punjab Assembly Election Results
Total Number of seats: 117
Akali Dal : 56
Congress : 46
BJP : 12
Others : 3
Results in the previous Elections 2007
Total Number of seats: 116
Akali Dal : 67
Cong : 44
Others : 5
Manipur
The Congress in Manipur braved all odds to make it to a third consecutive term by winning 42 of the 60 seats.
The Trinamool Congress won seven seats followed by the Naga Peoples’ Front (NPF) with four seats. The Manipur State Congress Party (MSCP) had won four seats, while the Nationalist Congress Party managed just a solitary seat.
There was jubilation in Congress camps across the state after Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh retained his Thoubal seat, defeating his rival from the BJP Indira Oinam by a huge margin of over 15,000 votes.
Following suit, Ibobi Singh’s wife Landhoni Devi also won the Khangabok seat by defeating rival Jatra Singh of Manipur People’s Party (MPP) by a huge margin of over 9,000 votes. Khangabok was the constituency of the Chief Minister earlier.
Opposition parties received a severe setback after three leaders, Radhabinod Koijam of the NCP, O Joy Singh and Th Chaoba Singh of MPP, lost to their rivals. Koijam, who is the leader of the Opposition in the outgoing Manipur assembly, is a former chief minister. Koijam was instrumental for bringing the 11 non-congress parties under one anti-Congress alliance – Peoples’ Democratic Alliance (PDA).
Okram Ibobi Singh will be the second Chief Minister in the northeast to make it to the top seat for the third consecutive time in recent times after Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
While the Gogoi brought the party to power in Assam in 2001, 2006 and 2011, Ibobi Singh had single-handedly brought the Congress to power in Manipur in 2002 and in 2007.
In Manipur, the Congress had a tough battle this time as at least 11 non-Congress parties have formed an alliance to stop the Congress from coming to power. The non-Congress parties included the NCP, Manipur People’s Party (MPP), CPI, CPI-M, JD-U, National People’s Party (NPP), Manipur State Congress Party (MSCP), Trinamool Congress, Lok Jana Shakti Party, BJP and the Naga People’s Front (NPF).
What had made it worse for the Congress is the fact that at least seven militant outfits had imposed a ban on the party. The militants also attacked several Congress candidates and supporters ahead of the Jan 28 polls.
2012 Manipur Assembly Election Results
Total Number of seats: 60
Congress : 42
Trinamool Congress : 7
Nationalist Congress party : 1
Others : 10
Results in the previous Elections 2007
Total Number of seats: 60
Congress : 30
MPP : 5
Ind : 10
Others : 15
Goa
The BJP has swept the Congress out of power in Goa, crossing the majority and notching 23 seats and leading in one. Chief Minister Digamber Kamat has, meanwhile, submitted his resignation. Goa BJP leader Manohar Parrikar declared that he will most likely be the next chief minister of the state.
He said, “The Congress has been punished in Goa. I am proud of the fact that I got support from Hindus, Muslims and Christians alike. They have voted to save Goa.”
The Congress has so far won 9 seats.
The United Goan Democratic Party (UGDP), meanwhile, has won 2 seats, and the Independents have bagged 5 seats.
BJP President Nitin Gadkari said at a press conference in Delhi that “even minorities” had voted in favour of the party.
Meanwhile, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the “illegal mining factor” seemed to have turned the tide in the BJP’s favour.
Eight of the 11 Cabinet ministers who contested the Assembly elections have had to bite the dust after a massive anti-incumbency wave knocked out the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance, results of the vote-count showed Tuesday.
Among the key candidates to lose the polls are home minister Ravi Naik (Ponda), public works department minister Churchill Alemao (Navelim), power minister Aleixo Sequeira (Nuvem), urban development minister Joaquim Alemao (Cuncolim), forest minister Filipe Neri (Velim) and Babu Azgaonkar (Pernem), all from the Congress.
The two nationalist Congress party (NCP) ministers, Jose Philip D’Souza (Vasco) and Nilkanth Halarnkar (Thivim) have lost the polls. The NCP, which fielded seven candidates, is yet to open its account in the elections.
The only cabinet ministers to have won the elections are chief minister Digambar Kamat, health minister Vishwajit Rane and education minister Atanasio Monserrate.
The only other minister in the Kamat-led 12-member cabinet was transport minister Sudin Dhavalikar, a member of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, which aligned with the BJP in a pre-poll alliance.
‘Family raj’, a major issue in the Goa polls, worked against the Congress as three of the candidates from Alemao family – Churchil Aleamo (Navelim), his bother Joaquim (Cuncolim) and daughter Valanka suffered defeat in Benaulim.
Similarly, Congress MLA Pandurang Madkaikar’s brother Daku Madkaikar contesting from Priol also suffered defeat at the hands of MGP.
BJP leaders who won included Ganesh Gaonkar from Sanvordem, Mahadev Naik from Siroda, Kiran Kandolkar from Tivim and Anant Shet from Maem. Ramesh Tawadkar and Nilesh Cabral are other party leaders leading from their respective constituencies.
BJP has managed to gain seats in most of the Congress dominated constituencies like Aldona, Calangute, Sanvordem, Tivim, Vasco, Cotalim, Curchorem and others.
MGP President Dipak Dhavalikar said the combination will stake claim to form the government. “We will form the government in the next two days,” he said, adding BJP’s Manohar Parrikar is the preferred chief ministerial candidate.
2012 Goa Assembly Election Results
Total Number of seats: 40
BJP : 21
Congress : 9
MGP : 3
Others : 7
Results in the previous Elections 2007
Total Number of seats: 40
Cong : 16
BJP : 14
NCP : 3
MG : 2
SGF : 2
UGDP : 1
Others: 2
Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand proved to be a of a contest with the Congress emerging as the single largest party winning 32 seats, securing a wafer-thin lead over ruling BJP’s 31 in the 70-member Assembly. As the counting progressed during the day, the state witnessed a see-saw battle in which the leads shifted continuously. BSP won three seats and three independents emerged successful, thus positioning themselves as possible kingmakers. Uttarakhand Kranti Dal-Panwar (UKD-P) won one seat.
One of the highlights of the election in the state was, obviously, Chief Minister BC Khanduri’s defeat from Kotdwar. Soon after after his loss, Khanduri said, “I am not in the race for CM.” BJP’s efforts to neutralise anti-incumbency in Uttarakhand by reinstalling Khanduri as the chief minister six months ahead of state elections did not pay off. Khanduri, who led the “Khanduri hain zaroori (Khanduri’s win is a must)” campaign of the BJP, lost to SS Negi of the Congress from Kotdwar seat by a margin of 4,632.
2012 Uttarakhand Assembly Election Results
Total Number of seats: 70
Congress : 32
BJP : 31
Others : 7
Results in the previous Elections 2007
Total Number of seats:69
BJP : 34
Cong : 21
BSP : 8
IND : 3
Others : 3
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